I like mulling over things and imagining fantastical situations. I remember everything in vivid detail and my knowledge of not-completely-useless trivia is almost embarrassingly vast, but I'm an excellent secret-keeper so it's all right. I'm pretty introverted – I like spending time alone a whole lot, snugglin' my kitty-cats (Patricia, Earl, Alva & Frenchie Lurleen), dancing around my apartment, reading in the bathtub, going grocery shopping, discovering new oddball movies, and watching Oz with a cup of hot cocoa. If I were to ever get married, I'd want some of Tiny Tim-esque style arrangement where my spouse and I would have adorable side-by-side houses and slumber parties instead of cohabitating. Crazy cat lady is probably in my future. :) I have a tendency to be a little straight-laced and debatably wholesome– don't drink, don't smoke or do drugs (& never have, ever), don't like venturing out of the Midwest, dislike scary rowdy parties (I'm not all that timid, but being around large groups of people makes me super-anxious), the idea of dating new people terrifies me a little. It is possible that I'm really late bloomer and a few years down the road I'll be binge-drinking and cussing and sleeping around and all sorts of doing radical things... Probably not though. In other words, I'm a loner, but not much of a rebel.

I've been told I come off as being never-failingly optimistic, with a surprisingly dark sense of humor. This isn't entirely accurate, but close enough. I can see peachy and good aspects about everyone and everything, simple things completely delight me (I'm in a pretty much constant state of childlike wonderment) and when speaking I end a lot of my sentences with exclamation points!

I like reading, nihilistic movies, radiator heat, collecting little treasures, cute snaggley teeth, pasting things together, using parentheses, and getting lost.

Sending postcards. Answering phones + filing papers. Being a hermit. Talking to my cats in a high-pitched baby voice. Thriftin'. Growing a jelly belly.

I moved back home to Ohio after spending a few years on the East Coast and rented a giant (for me – it has more than one room hooray) apartment which I spend a lot of time decorating and perfecting and rearranging – I love creating something that's so wonderful and homey. I like natural wood and warm colors and secondhand taxidermy and globes and elderly furniture that smells like cigarettes and old people.

Being thrifty. Getting out of trouble. Becoming emotionally invested in terrible reality shows. Keeping a timely schedule. Attempting to bake lavish, fancy delancey treats and burning or way undercooking or overwise failing/ending up with oddly favored things.

My laugh is pretty silly and my glasses are kinda nifty.

Books: Watership Down. Midnight Cowboy. The God of Small Things. Tipping The Velvet. Into the Forest. Kissing the Witch. The Price of Salt. The Cement Garden. V.C. Andrews. Biographies of serial killers and freaks of nature. Various kidlit.

Movies: Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby. The Doom Generation. Gummo. The Forbidden Zone. L.I.E. The Adventures of Milo and Otis. Palindromes. My Own Private Idaho. Showgirls. The Rules of Attraction. Frakenfish. Ginger Snaps. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

TV: Oz. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Xena: Warrior Princess. Hex. Six Feet Under. Queer as Folk. Firefly. Deadwood. Mad Men. Nip/Tuck, Skins. Reality tv trashy trash.

Music: Peter, Paul and Mary.

Food: Homemade sprouts. Sweet & sour tofu. Vegan french toast with coconut milk. Deep-fried zucchini. Cookies.

A Microwave. My pets. Solitude. My mummy. My glasses. Livejournal (I've tried, I've tried).

Alternate endings.

The sensational inner workings of fictional characters' minds.

How to be a nicer person.

Gray areas.

Things that are ugly and wonderful at the same time.

I'm also a little infatuated with the ABC limited series "What Would You Do?" I think a lot about What I Would Do.

My life is incredibly boring and I absolutely love it. My ideal Friday would include some of the following: snuggling with the feline loves of my life, reading in the bathtub, watching something nerdy on DVD with friends, making some corn+potato chowder or some brownies or some sushi, and going to bed at a reasonable hour.

I find Tiny Tim strikingly attractive.

I'm secretly extra, extra sappy. I've been moved to tears by Survivor contestants bickering.

You wanna be friends or penpals or something chummy. :)
I like thrifting buddies and people who want to go to watch weird movies with me!